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Vol. 72 Published Weekly December 13, 1902 The interesting personal Congress in Session event that marked the first day of the new session of Congress was the reception accorded to Mr. Can non, of Illinois, who was everywhere congratulated as the Speaker of the next House of Representatives. As all of his formidable competitors for the place have now withdrawn from the contest, his election is virtually assured. Its political significance is not very pronounced in any direction, as Mr. Cannon has not stood for any distinctive policies. He has, however, as Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, exercised a strong and wholesome influence upon his party in curbing the tendency to lavish expenditures. Though he believes that protective taxes are no real burden to the people of this country, he does not believe that statesmanship consists in substituting the maxims of political extravagance for those of political economy. The interesting political event that marked the first day of the new session was the objection offered by Mr. Taylor, of Ohio, to the acceptance of the credentials of Representative Glass, of Virginia, who was elected in November, under the newly proclaimed State Constitution disfranchising negroes by provisions clearly aimed at their race. Mr. Taylor's resolutions were referred to a committee, but will not be pressed according to the present understanding, as their supporters prefer to concentrate their efforts upon the passage of the Crumpacker resolution of the last session, calling for an inquiry into the extent to which any of the States have abridged the right of suffrage and thus reduced their own right to represen tation in Congress and in the electoral college. More important than this resolution, however, is the recent action of Judge Jones, of the United States Court in the district of Alabama-formerly Gov No. 15 ernor Jones, of that State-in certifying to the Supreme Court of the United States the case of an Alabama negro who was refused registration under the new State Constitution. It is hoped that this case will soon be reached and the Nation informed by the supreme authority whether the new Southern Constitutions, framed to disfranchise negroes by provisions not applicable to the majority of whites, are in violation of the Constitution of the United States. So far as legislative action is concerned, the one important event of the week was the passage by the House of the pension appropriation bill. This bill, passed without debate, carries an appropriation of $139,000,000, or nine dollars for (or from) every family in the United States. Congress: Subsidy The most important Conand Trust Proposals gressional event of the week, however, did not take place in Congress, but in committees. In the House of Representatives the Committee on Merchant Marine virtually decided not to report the Ship Subsidy Bill which passed the Senate at the last session. Three or four Western Republicans on the Committee stand firmly against the bill, and these, with the support of all the Democrats, are sufficient to prevent favorable consideration at this session. If the bill is defeated at this session, it is not likely to be passed for at least two years, as the first session of a new Congress held during the approach of a Presidential election is traditionally far less favorable to corporation measures than the last session of an expiring Congress whose successor has already been elected. The other important action taken by a House committee last week is not less satisfactory to people with anti-monopoly sympathies. The sub-committee to which the Committee on Judiciary referred the |